chris hamamoto is a designer and assistant professor at california college of the arts.

Exhibitions

  • Stop Asian Hate, Nodul Art Space (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?, YBCA (San Francisco, USA)
  • OCAT (Shenzhen, China)
  • Fun Palace (Shenzhen, China)
  • Gwangju Design Biennale, Asia Culture Center (Gwanju, South Korea)
  • What about: 29th Brno International Graphic Design Biennial 2020, The White (Tokyo, Japan)
  • wmdywtl?, Frans Masereel Centrum (Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Más allá del mundo, hay letras, PEANA (Monterey, Mexico)
  • POCGD Exhibit, MICA (Baltimore, USA)
  • Double Negative, Chashama (New York, USA)
  • Bodega ACME, General Prim 30 (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Take Action, Hubbell Street Galleries (San Francisco, USA)
  • transient_space, Design Manchester Festival (Manchester, England)
  • 2030 Seoul ♥ ♥ Pyongyang, Seoul Design Foundation (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Printer Prosthetic: Futura, Fundación Alumnos (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • True Forms (beta), IF/THEN (Berkeley, USA)
  • Flag Festival, tmoro projects (Santa Clara, USA)
  • Mage, Radiator Arts (New York, USA)
  • Typojanchi 2017: Mohm Culture Station Seoul 284 (Seoul, South Korea)
  • and 019 Gallery (Ghent, Belgium)
  • Public Square, YBCA (San Francisco, USA)
  • An Image, Oolite Arts - formerly ArtCenter/South Florida (Miami, USA)

Lectures, Workshops, and Guest Critic

  • Pillow Lava (Online / Worldwide)
  • Seoul National University (Online / Seoul, South Korea)
  • Centre A (Online / Vancouver, Canada)
  • Rutgers (Online / New Jersey, USA)
  • Parsons School of Design (Online / New York, USA)
  • University of San Francisco (Online / San Francisco, USA)
  • Adjunct (Online / USA)
  • Letterform Archive (Online / San Francisco, USA)
  • Material Art Fair, Frontón México (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • OCAT Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China)
  • Handshake 302 (Shenzhen, China)
  • The Book Society (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Casul UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Hongik University (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Institute Of advancing Uncertainty, (San Francisco, USA)
  • SUNY Purchase (New York, USA)
  • Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, USA)
  • Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, USA)
  • Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair (New York, USA)
  • Meiyi Art Academy (Beijing, China)
  • Meiyi Art Academy (Guangzhou, China)
  • Design Principles & Practices (Toronto, Canada)
  • Design Principles & Practices (Vancouver, Canada)

Works Included in Books and Magazines

  • IDEA No. 391 Alternative Reality
  • Echo of Discursion: Shenzhen
  • The Graphic Design Process
  • IDEA No. 386
  • Speculations

Published Writing

  • C Magazine
  • Walker Art Center: The Gradient

Awards

  • OCAT Shenzhen Artist-in-Residence
  • STA 100 (2016, 2017, 2019)
  • IF/THEN Artist in Residence
  • 2017 STA 100
  • 2016 STA 100
  • Printed Matter Emerging Artists 2016 Publication Series
  • YBCA Citizenship Fellow
  • Headlands Designer-in-Residence (2014, 2015)